Changing Portrait Characters
Lightning flashes transform these paintings (at the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Mansions) from benign to frightening. The portraits consist of:
- A beautiful young princess reclining on a couch who changes into a ferocious werecat. The werecat was originally a panther, but since 2005 has been a white tiger.
- A gallant knight (identified as "The Black Prince" in concept art) atop a rearing horse, who both become skeletal. The 2003 film's skeletal man and horse portrait is based on Napoleon rather than Edward, the Black Prince.
- A handsome young man who decays into a ghastly corpse. In 2005 at Disneyland, this portrait replaced that of a beautiful young woman transforming into an old hag, often referred to as "April–December" by fans. At Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland, the Aging Man portrait can be found above the fireplace in the foyer.
- A proud galleon that devolves into a ghost ship, based on a Marc Davis concept for the Flying Dutchman.
- The beautiful, red-haired Medusa, who becomes a hideous Gorgon.
Read more about this topic: List Of Haunted Mansion Characters
Famous quotes containing the words changing, portrait and/or characters:
“Sweet love, I see, changing his property,
Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called “self-interestedness.” This was not a portrait of man “warts and all.” It was all wart.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)
“The more gifted and talkative one’s characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)